PRESSED RIBBED HAND CANDLESTICK / CHAMBERSTICK

PRESSED RIBBED HAND CANDLESTICK / CHAMBERSTICK, alabaster/clambroth, skirted base with a central eight-lobe socket and an applied ring-like handle, original brass chimney gallery plastered to base, original colorless cylinder chimney/shade engraved with a Greek Key band above a frosted base. Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. 1860-1888. 7 1/2" HOA, 2 3/4" H to socket top, 4 3/8" D skirt.
Socket being cracked and having some flaking to the underside of the rim scallops; chimney having some flaking to the fitter.
Literature: Parallels Barlow/Kaiser - The Glass Industry in Sandwich, Vol. 4, fig. 4044. Barlow/Kaiser - The Glass Industry in Sandwich, Vol. 5, p. 133, Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. 1880 Trade Catalogue page 96 reprint.
Provenance: From the collection of the late Alexander Hierholzer (Holt) and Harry Saunders, Philadelphia, PA.
Condition Report: Socket being cracked and having some flaking to the underside of the rim scallops; chimney having some flaking to the fitter.